Meteorology and climatology

The book is the first to focus on the physical oceanography of the North Indian Ocean (NIO), a special region of the global ocean that exhibits a distinct seasonality due to the impact of the South Asian Monsoon (SAM).

A new method of modeling the atmosphere, synthesizing data analysis techniques and multifractal statistics, for atmospheric researchers and graduate students.

One of the main problems confronting the world of the 21st Century is a shortage of water.

In Atmospheric Things Derek P.

This book addresses why, whether and how the existing legal framework on water management in China could make climate change adaptation a mainstream issue.

Reeds Cloud Handbook is a quick-access, easy-to-use guide to identifying cloud types and how to predict what each cloud type can tell us about the weather and predict how it will change.

Rogue waves remain something of a mystery.

Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks forand in many cases is already affectinga broad range of human and natural systems.

This book consists of a diverse collection of chapters that seeks to broaden our fundamental understanding of the ecological function and biological importance of the Earth's lower atmosphere, which provides a huge living space for billions of animals moving within and across continents.

This book provides an analysis of the concurrence of energy politics and global climate change.

For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales.

As humanity approaches the 3rd millennium, the sustainability of our present way of life becomes more and more questionable.

This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in the Pacific.

The aim of this book is to provide information to scientists and local government to help them better understand the particularities of the local climate.

This book integrates the different prospective, scientific and practical experience of researchers as well as beneficiaries and stakeholders in the field of forest conservation in Southeast Europe.

This book highlights the estimation of crop yield in CentralGujarat, especially with regard to the development of Multiple RegressionModels and Principal Component Regression (PCR) models using climatologicalparameters as independent variables and crop yield as a dependent variable.

Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, Third Edition-winner of a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association-provides a thorough overview of the methods of paleoclimatic reconstruction and of the historical changes in climate during the past three million years.

What can we learn about the ancient landscapes of our world, and how can those lessons improve our future in the landscapes that we all inhabit?

This book highlights rice and water resources security in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam - countries that share the international Mekong River, which is a source of both regional cooperation and conflict.

This book introduces the concept of soil security and its five dimensions: Capability, Capital, Condition, Connectivity and Codification.

The author looks at the prospects for a transition from natural gas to low carbon gas, which could take several decades, and at how this will depend on the evolution of the fossil fuel industry.

High Performance Computing in the Geosciences surveys the state of the art of programs presently being developed which require high performance computing for their implementation, provides a guide for decision making in regard to computing directions in future numerical models, and provides an overview of future developments in massively parallel processing and their implications for numerical modelling in the geosciences.

This book provides two state-of-the-art quantitative techniques to determine ultra-trace rare earth elements (REEs) in natural carbonates using solution nebulization-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (SN-ICPMS) and laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) with respective applications were presented in this dissertation.

This book is about climate change and its relation to agriculture and rural livelihoods.

Originally published in 1986, this book discusses the value of weather and climate information in government and business decision-making.

Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Second Edition, explains the latest statistical methods used to describe, analyze, test, and forecast atmospheric data.

Arctic marine ecosystems are largely impacted by changes associated with global warming.

This book presents recent advances in the area of Radioscience, Equatorial Atmospheric Science and Environment from the international symposium for equatorial atmosphere of the celebration of the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) 20th Anniversary, conducted by Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) and Kyoto University, in 2021.

This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world.

This book offers perspectives on more productive, sustainable and resilient modes of agriculture.

This book aims to provide an advanced R software approach that can carry out rainfall trend analysis using Mann-Kendall and Sen's slope estimator tests.

Everyonegovernment agencies, private organizations, and individualsis facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent to follow routines based on past climatic averages.

This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present.

This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation.

The thermodynamics of the atmosphere is the subject of several chapters in most textbooks on dynamic meteorology, but there is no work in English to give the subject a specific and more extensive treatment.

Since the Sun is the main source of space weather effects, the first part of the book is devoted to a general introduction to the physics of the Sun.

Population genomics has provided unprecedented opportunities to unravel the mysteries of marine organisms in the oceans' depths.

This book collects the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental science and sustainable development, which were presented by scholars and researchers at the 2021 6th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, held in Phuket, Thailand, November 6-8, 2021.

Large-scale winds and currents tend to balance Coriolis and pressure gradient forces.

This book combines three different energy-economy-emissions modeling methodologies into one Integrated Modeling Framework (IMF) in an attempt to fill gaps in current modeling research as it applies to developing countries.

Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences.

A pragmatic, no-holds-barred assessment of climate change, for anyone wishing to be fully informed on the topic.

Environmental Systems Science: Theory and Practical Applications looks at pollution and environmental quality from a systems perspective.

This book integrates 30 years of mercury research on the Florida Everglades to inform scientists and policy makers.